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Fire that almost killed girl was arson, KC police say

Posted on March 10, 2008
A 2-year-old girl nearly died in a Kansas City house fire early Saturday in the 6200 block of South Benton. (Firefighters, luckily, were able to resuscitate her.) Mom was arrested originally because the kiddo had been left home alone when...

Terry Blair goes on trial today

Posted on March 10, 2008
Terry Blair -- the man accused of being the Prospect Avenue serial killer -- goes on trial today in Jackson County, facing first-degree murder charges in the slaying of six women. Blair has pleaded not guilty. Joe Lambe has a...

Fact: Putting kids in a dryer could be considered child abuse

Posted on March 10, 2008
Aron Pritchard -- the Kansas man accused of putting his girlfriend's two kids in a dryer -- has been convicted of child abuse. Prosecutors say he was mad at the little boy for wetting his pants. The defense argued they...

UPDATE: Woman accused of kidnapping her own mother

Posted on March 10, 2008
Story is from Carthage, Mo., where a 95-year-old woman, Emma France, was made a ward of the county administrator. When France's daughter came to Missouri and took her to California, the daughter was actually jailed for two weeks and hauled...

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Virginia delivers a stunning setback to dirty old men

Posted on March 10, 2008
Virginia's legislature has passed a measure that make French-kissing someone under 13 an offense worth of the sex offenders' list, if you're an adult. (It stems from a case where a 62-year-old slipped the tongue to a 10-year-old that his...

Urologist lied about man having prostate cancer, gave him unneeded treatment

Posted on March 10, 2008
He's getting three months in jail, three months of house arrest. Sadly, nobody's going to insert anything radioactive in HIS prostate.

CA man, 21, dies in "illegal soapbox" race

Posted on March 10, 2008
Part of me says this is a Darwin finalist, but you have to admit, the guy deserves points for creativity.

NIU Postscript

Posted on March 10, 2008
The gun dealer who sold weapons to the NIU shooter has shut down and surrendered his dealer's license, even though authorities say the business did nothing wrong.

UPDATE: Linwood girl, 5, shot while playing in her yard

Posted on March 10, 2008
She's supposed to be moved out of the ICU, the Journal-World reports. The little girl is in what's called a "higher-level coma," meaning that she has opened her eyes for short times.

MD police won't pay tickets from surveillance cameras

Posted on March 10, 2008
Story is from Rockville, Maryland. The town's surveillance cameras caught police cruisers breaking the speed limit 224 times. About one-third of those were dismissed because the officers were responding to calls for help. The police chief wants his officers to...

"I thought I had the system on my side"

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Columbia Tribune has a really nice feature story this weekend about a woman whose minivan was vandalized in a Sam Club's parking lot -- and how she finally got a little justice, despite a lack of help from the...

Open Thread ... Monday

Posted on March 10, 2008
Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story elsewhere, this is a good place to share the link! Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well...

Reymundo Gonzalez

Posted on March 10, 2008
From Platte County: A Platte County man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking 375 pounds of marijuana. Reymundo L. Gonzalez, 24, of Kansas City, was sentenced in Platte County Circuit Court on March 6 for trying...

22-month-old dies in weekend shooting, FL police say

Posted on March 10, 2008
But there's some question who pulled the trigger ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, kmb!

Median cables helped slash the number of crossover fatals, MODOT says

Posted on March 10, 2008
Pretty amazing bit of news from The AP: After MODOT installed median cables on I-70, I-29, I-55 and I-44, the number of crossover fatalities went from 55 to two in the space of a year.

Report: NY governor linked to prostitution ring

Posted on March 10, 2008
The New York Times broke the story. He's apologizing to his family, but he's not resigning or anything like that at this point. And he didn't dispute the Times story during a press conference this afternoon. Everybody's pretty shocked about...

OK jury recommends death for man who killed little girl

Posted on March 10, 2008
Even if you're against the death penalty, you might be willing to make an exception in this case ...

Police search for shoplifters targeting Sears Grand stores

Posted on March 10, 2008
From Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline: The Liberty Police Department is attempting to identify four suspects in a recent string of thefts from Sears Grand stores in Liberty and Merriam, Kansas. The subjects enter the store, split up, and remain in...

KY legislator wants to ban anonymous posting online

Posted on March 10, 2008
Not only would a person's real name have to be posted with any comments, users would also have to register their address and email with the site's operator, who would be fined if they let anyone post anonymously. Local blogger...

School police officer handcuffed kids, age 4, who wouldn't take nap, NY parents say

Posted on March 10, 2008
There is, of course, a lawsuit. Hat Tip: Many thanks, blondie2hot7

KCPD names victim from 46th and Paseo homicide

Posted on March 10, 2008
From KCPD: The victim is identified as Michael C. Abron, a 19-year-old KCMO resident. There are no suspects in custody and detectives ask that anyone with information in regard to the case to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

You might have thrown a wild party if ...

Posted on March 10, 2008
* your dog overdoses on Ecstasy pills. * your living-room floor is covered by four inches of beer the next day. * your folks find handcuffs and underwear in your sister's room. Story is from the UK. Really liked this...

First they came for the smokers ...

Posted on March 10, 2008
I suppose it was only a matter of time. Local blogger Scooter J reports on The Man taking away yet another treasured American pastime ...

Getting inside a killer's head

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Omaha World Herald has a two-day series that looks at Rob Hawkins, the man who killed eight people and injured six others at a Von Maur store late last year. The paper says it isn't trying to popularize Hawkins,...

Report: Hate groups, hate crimes on the rise, especially against Latinos

Posted on March 10, 2008
The Southern Poverty Law Center says there are 888 hate groups operating in the U.S., compared to 602 in 2000. The center also notes there's been a jump in hate crimes against Latinos, citing FBI statistics -- 819 such crimes...

China says it's cutting back on the death penalty

Posted on March 10, 2008
China's chief justice says the country used the death penalty for only the worst cases last year, though it's not disclosing an exact number. Experts have estimated that China executes as many as 10K prisoners in a typical year. The...

Some headlines just write themselves

Posted on March 10, 2008
From the Salt Lake Tribune: "Man stiffs cabbie, is hit by oncoming car"

Disbarred lawyer sues casinos for $20 mil, says they should've cut her off

Posted on March 10, 2008
She lost about $1 million, her home, her business and her parents' home. She argues the casinos knew she had a problem and should have stopped her from gambling more. Snip from The AP: "They knew I was going for...

Former Ottawa official acquitted of rape, sodomy charges

Posted on March 10, 2008
Weldon Padgett, the former city manager of Ottawa, was cleared Friday of charges that he drugged his wife's wine with sedatives so he could have sex with her. She testified that she noticed there was a problem after she started...

Charges filed in Memphis massacre

Posted on March 10, 2008
A quick follow-up on the shooting last week in Memphis, where six people were murdered and three children were critically injured. Authorities have filed charges against one person: the brother of one victim. Snip from the Commercial Appeal: Jessie Dotson,...

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